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SLANZA'S Vision
SLANZA aims to strengthen and promote the role of school libraries, to enable all school communities to become information literate.

SLANZA Awards
Apply for an award, or nominate a colleague whom you think meets the criteria of the SLANZA Awards. Don't be guilty of the tall poppy syndrome - celebrate success and achievement in our school library community. Applications or nominations are due by the 31st October 2008.

A new award has been added this year for Library Assistants.

Study Grants
SLANZA are offering 5 study grants this year. Applications are due by the 31st October 2008. Click the link above for criteria and application form.
Click here to see who the lucky recipients were of a SLANZA Study grant for 2007.

The SLANZA 2007 conference Intersections: collaborative forces was held at Wellington High School from 2-4 July 2007. At the recent AGM held at the 2007 Conference SLANZA members voted to affiliate to the Professional Registration Scheme administered by the LIANZA Registration Board.

To see the 2007 Presentation's from the Conference, these have been added to the website go to Conference Papers.

South Island Children's Librarians' Conference, 17-18 March, Christchurch, 2008

There is just extactly one month to go before registration for this conference closes. Conference places are limited, so don't miss out. Be sure to book before the deadline of February 14. The link to the conference registration form is:
http://library.christchurch.org.nz/SICLC/Registration/

Keynote speaker is the multi award-winning Australian writer Margo Lanagan and the noted British author Dennis Hamley will be at the conference. New Zealand speakers will be Julia Marshall of Gecko Press, Illustrators Pamela allen and Gavin Bishop and authors Brian Falkner, vince Ford and David Hill.

LIANZA Children's book Awards to be held during Library Week

This year Library Week will take place from 18-24 August 2008 and a presentation ceremony for the LIANZA Children's Book Awards will be added to the Library Week's schedule of events.

Join SLANZA
Download the membership form, fill out and send to SLANZA. The address is on the form. If you need to check on your membership status email Pat McKenzie

Slanza Brochure
For information about SLANZA download the SLANZA Brochure.

Schoollib listserv
Find out how to subscribe to the schoollib listserv.

Job descriptions
Examples of job descriptions for the library team and a flowchart of the job description process.

Page updated 1/03/08